Teen Who Reportedly Hacked the CIA Director's Email Just Wants to Smoke Weed and Chill, Brah

Those Scooby Doo villains were right about the dangers of meddling kids.

When I was a teenager I was concerned about two things. Figuring out how to do sex and playing video games. It turns out some teenagers aim a little higher. For instance, some do Model UN while others use social engineering to hack the AOL email address of CIA director John Brennan. No, you didn't read that last sentence wrong.

According to the New York Post, one teenager tricked Verizon customer service people into providing enough of Brennan's personal information that he could get AOL to reset Brennan's password. What he found on the insecure account? Some pretty top-secret materials:

CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files —
including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance —
until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker
told The Post.

Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the
Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen
top American intelligence officials, as well as a government letter
about the use of “harsh interrogation techniques” on terrorism
suspects, according to the hacker.

Much of this personal information has been released in a spreadsheet by the hacker whom The Post describe as an "American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine." The CIA has turned the matter over to the authorities and the FBI say they are looking into the breach as well. The Hacker? He doesn't seem too worried: